Author: Richa Kumari and Binita Kumari
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The health and nutrition of women throughout their lives in developing countries are affected by the interactions and relationships between health, social, cultural and health related factors. Instead of focusing solely on the moment of birth, we address the conditions that occur before and after pregnancy and explain lifelong ways to improve maternal nutrition by going beyond traditional nutrition services during pregnancy. Malnutrition is a complex, multifactorial problem that requires in prevention by specific nutrition and health sensitive programmes used by many programs. Maternal malnutrition during pregnancy and postpartum continues to be a major public health problem. It affects the health of mothers and their offspring and has long term effects on the survival, growth and development of children in the first 1000 days of life and beyond malnutrion among pregnant women and lactating mothers continues to be a public health problem in developing countries. There are many initiatives taken by the Indian Government but the participants are facing risks due to lack of impact to solve this problem. In this study, many problems faced by the respondents and government officials during getting benefits and services of the National Nutrition Mission have been clarified
beneficiaries, constraints, government officials, National Nutrition Mission
Women's nutrition is still a global issue with common problems and limitations that can be resolved if women's health and nutrition are integrated into elements of the life cycle rather than isolated. This approach includes addressing the social and cultural aspects of women’s lives at every stage of the life cycle. Maximum respondents of both blocks faced constraints due to lack of economic support and not proper information about different government programmes and most of the government officials faced constraints of both block due to heavy workload, low remuneration compared to workload and problems to overcome religious taboos/belief
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